Hot Topics:

Shreeya Basrur, senior at Lafayette's Peak to Peak Charter School

Posted:
01/18/2018 03:53:56 PM MST

Updated:
01/18/2018 03:54:33 PM MST

Shreeya Basrur

Shreeya is a member of Youth Advocating for Change and worked on a recent publication on gender bias and how to engage in constructive dialogue. She's also a leader in Peak to Peak's Allies Club and interned at a local hospital.

What kind of activities have you helped lead in the Allies Club?

We talk about education. We bring in guest speakers and lead anti-oppression simulations. I do a cool lesson on LGBTQ music history.

Why open enroll at Peak to Peak?

I've been here since kindergarten. My parents value education a lot. They had very high standards for me. They put me here to make sure I got the best education I could possibly get. I'm comfortable here, and it's a really cool school. I feel prepared for college.

What do you like most about the school?

Our school is super accommodating of student interests. I work in a lab at CU. We're doing behavioral work for a study on the connection between epilepsy and autism. They're teaching me how research is actually done.

What other activities do you participate in?

I'm in speech and debate, and I perform poetry.

What's your dream job?

Research or medicine. I really love math and biology and neuroscience.

Numbers suggest desire is greater than ever to have a CHSAA-sanctioned female divisionClarissa Batrez is a wrestler, not a girl who wrestles. Her father and older brother both wrestled so Batrez was raised in a wrestling environment all her life. Batrez speaks glowingly of the sport and loves that it gives her a competitive avenue through which she can channel her "inner power" and natural aggression. Full Story

The Boulder alt-country band gives its EPs names such as Death and Resurrection, and its songs bear the mark of hard truths and sin. But the punk energy behind the playing, and the sense that it's all in good fun, make it OK to dance to a song like "Death." Full Story